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FILE- In this April 12, 2016, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the company's 10-year roadmap during the keynote address at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco. Instagram along with Messenger and WhatsApp are serving as the social media giant’s insurance policy for a future that might not be dominated by its flagship service. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

UK Fines Facebook Over Data Scandal

by Danica Kirka Associated PressOctober 25, 2018

A forensics officer works near the scene near of a car that crashed into security barriers outside the Houses of Parliament to the right of a bus in London, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. Authorities said in a statement Tuesday that a man in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of terrorist offenses after a silver Ford Fiesta collided with a number of cyclists and pedestrians before crashing into the barriers during the morning rush hour. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

UK Police Treat Crash as Terrorism

by Jill Lawless Associated Press, and Danica Kirka Associated PressAugust 14, 2018

Rescuers work to recover an injured person after the Morandi highway bridge collapsed in Genoa, northern Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. The highway bridge collapsed during a violent storm, sending vehicles plunging 45 meters (nearly 150 feet) into a heap of rubble. Authorities said at least 20 people were killed, although some people were found alive in the debris. (Luca Zennaro/ANSA via AP)

Italian Highway Bridge Collapse Kills 26

by Colleen Barry Associated Press, and Danica Kirka Associated PressAugust 14, 2018

Russian ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko speaks about the recent Salisbury incident, during a news conference at the Russian Embassy in London, Thursday April 5, 2018. Britain has blamed Russia for the March 4 nerve agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

Russian Poison Victim Speaks

by Danica Kirka Associated Press, and Vladimir Isachenkov Associated PressApril 5, 2018

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during the scheduled Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, Wednesday March 14, 2018. May is widely expected to announce a range of economic and diplomatic measures against Russia, in response to the nerve-agent poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. (PA via AP)

Britain Boots 23 Russian Diplomats

by Jill Lawless The Associated Press, and Danica Kirka The Associated PressMarch 15, 2018

A police community support officer stands inside a cordon outside The Mill pub in Salisbury, England, Wednesday, March 7, 2018, near to where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal was found critically ill. Britain's counterterrorism police took over an investigation Tuesday into the mysterious collapse of the former spy and his daughter, now fighting for their lives. The government pledged a "robust" response if suspicions of Russian state involvement are proven. Skripal and his daughter are in a critical condition after collapsing in the English city of Salisbury on Sunday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Police: Nerve Agent Was Used On Russian Ex-Spy

by Danica Kirka Associated Press, and Jill Lawless Associated PressMarch 7, 2018

Staff from the #OneLess campaign and Thames21 waterways charity prepare to bag up and take away plastic bottles they used to make a Valentine's Day love heart from, that were lying washed up nearby during a media event organised to promote public awareness of the single-use plastic bottles that end up in the Thames River and wash up on in places like this location, the foreshore at the site of the ancient and no-longer used Queenhithe dock, on the north bank of the River Thames in London, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018. Amid growing evidence of dire amounts of waste in the world’s oceans, conservation is becoming a selling point for firms trying to jump on the bandwagon of concern about the flood of plastic choking sea life. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Amid a Flood of Plastic, Big Companies Try to Clean Up Image

by Danica Kirka Associated PressFebruary 22, 2018

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, July 24, 2017, Chris Gard, the father of critically ill baby Charlie Gard reads a statement next to mother Connie Yates, right, at the end of their case at the High Court in London. British media are reporting a family announcement that 11-month old Charlie Gard, has died Friday July 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

British Baby Charlie Gard Dies, Was Center of Legal Battle

by Danica Kirka Associated Press, Jill Lawless Associated Press, and Leonore Schick Associated PressJuly 28, 2017

This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. A vast iceberg with twice the volume of Lake Erie has broken off from a key floating ice shelf in Antarctica, scientists said Wednesday July 12, 2017 . The iceberg broke off from the Larsen C ice shelf, scientists at the University of Swansea in Britain said. The iceberg, which is likely to be named A68, is described as weighing 1 trillion tons (1.12 trillion U.S. tons).(John Sonntag/NASA via AP)

Scientists Say Massive Iceberg Has Broken Off in Antarctica

by Danica Kirka Associated Press, and Malcolm Ritter Associated PressJuly 12, 2017

Camden Council workers talk to residents outside Dorney block, part of the Chalcots Estate in the borough of Camden, north London, Saturday June 24, 2017, after the local council evacuated some 650 homes overnight. The apartments were evacuated overnight after fire inspectors concluded that the buildings, in north London's Camden area, were unsafe because of problematic fire doors, gas pipe insulation, and external cladding similar to that blamed for the rapid spread of a fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower on June 14. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

U.K. Finds 34 Buildings With Unsafe Siding

by Sylvia Hui Associated Press, and Danica Kirka Associated PressJune 24, 2017